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UpSpring Baby Product Review

I recently signed on with MommyCon as a blogger for their Parent Squad! I am one of a group of parents who will receive exciting products to test out. My first assignment is this wonderful box from UpSpring Baby! This collection of products is to support nursing mothers. The goal is to help maintain a healthy milk supply without unhealthy GMO additives. I thought this box was perfect for where I am in my Mama life as I tend to have a dip in supply around the 5-month mark of my baby’s life.

Over the last 3 weeks, I’ve tested these products to give you my honest opinion and overall, I think this company is the perfect one to look into. I think for parents, it’s great to find companies that offer a wide variety of products that are safe and natural. Now more than ever with environmental toxins, we need to be more careful with what we’re putting IN our bodies.

In the box, I received a shaker cup! The best thing about this cup is that it has a plastic screen in the top area so if you’re drinking ice water, the ice doesn’t come through the top, I’ve done this many times with other blender cups and so far, I think this one is the best I’ve used. In addition to the cup, MommyCon included packets of Milkflow in three different flavors, alcohol breastmilk strips, coconut oil, nipple cream and prenatal vitamins!

My Favorite

My favorite item in this box has to be the prenatal vitamin. No matter which doctor we see, they always ask “you’re taking your prenatal right?” My answer, Honestly? No. I hardly ever took the prenatal vitamins with my last baby because there was conflicting information online about folic acid. I took a look at the label for this brand and it says Folate (L-Methylfolate Calcium Salt.) This means that the body won’t need to work as hard to break it down. Instead of four steps to reaching the good part of Folate, you’re getting the real deal right away.

I love wine and I just so happened to be going out the night I received this package so the first thing I tried was the Milkscreen Breastmilk Alcohol Test Strips, these worked great! When I posted about it online, a friend said that milk screen test strips don’t actually work. They had tried them in nursing school and it said that they were over the limit without even having a drink. This gave me the idea to test the strips to make sure that this wasn’t the case here and I was correct. The test was negative when I tested my milk without having had a drink. (Pictured below) The test strip on the left is the one without having any alcohol, the test strip on the right is the one where I had 2 glasses of wine.

A photo posted by @theblackandwhiteblogco on Feb 10, 2017 at 4:57pm PST

I thought the berry had a great taste, I am automatically drawn to berry flavors (I eat all of the reds and pinks out of my starburst candies :))

Chocolate was my least favorite of the three but I am more of a dark chocolate type of person. I also like the thick consistency that chocolate drinks have and since this has a water base, it lacked that.

I normally do not eat the yellows or orange candies but this actually had a great taste. It didn’t have the overly-sweetened aftertaste and I liked that.

You can’t ever have too many different types of coconut oil, at least at my house you can’t, so when I saw both of these in there I was really excited to try them out. First, let me mention that the packaging on all of these products is well designed, I’m a graphic designer myself and I love how everything is laid out and readable. In the green container, you have your coconut oil, the stuff you can put on just about anything. In these dry winter months, all the lips are chapped and since my kids like to lick the chapstick off of their lips, this was a good solution. I also put this on my hair to do a coconut oil mask and that helped to restore the balance and moisture in my hair.

I don’t suffer as much from dry nipples while breastfeeding but I did like to use the nipple balm too, it did provide relief for the small amount of dryness that I had and I think that made for a better nursing experience for my little guy.

About the author...

Hello! My name is Ally, I'm the blogger & photographer for The Black & White Blog. My everyday life consists of celebrating and documenting Motherhood. I started this blog to help other parents to also document their adventures in parenting. I also want to help others go to bed at night feeling like they are the best parents that they can be. I hope that my reviews and opinions have done just that!